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...John Doerr, chair of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, said last February he would put $10mn into the company....
...L’Oréal recently reported how an AI-powered app delivered a 63 percentage point uplift in the conversion rate of inquiries into sales compared with traditional counter selling methods....
...This is another painted room, with trompe l’oeil decoration by Fernand Renard....
...L’Ami Louis, Paris This place is no secret, and had in fact been on my list of Paris restaurants to try for a long time. Finally, one freezing night at the beginning of December, I got to visit....
...Perkins Coie, Morrison Foerster, Winston & Strawn and Susman Godfrey all edited or clarified their programmes to remove racial considerations from recruitment criteria after coming under attack by Blum....
...But there are many wonderful performances — not least Clare Perkins’ fierce, funny Mistress Quickly and Geoffrey Freshwater’s washed-up Bardolph....
...The risk was not a precipitous crash but rather a slow-burn (S&L-style) squeeze on asset returns and bank profitability. That squeeze will continue....
...Morrison Foerster was one of two firms sued last month in a new campaign by conservative activist Edward Blum following his landmark Supreme Court victory over US colleges’ affirmative action programmes...
...Edward Blum, a conservative campaigner who in June won a decades-long battle to end racially conscious admissions at US colleges, has already sued global firms Perkins Coie and Morrison Foerster, arguing...
...At FT Globetrotter, we are particularly excited about the Pompidou Centre’s big Brâncuși show in March, the opening of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson’s Paris bolt-hole, Villa Windsor, in the summer and,...
...fails majority / From Kai L Chan, Abu Dhabi, UAE Ivy League credentials of those ruling on education / From Harold J Smith, White Plains, NY, US...
...Many DEI executives were more afraid of litigation from civil rights groups accusing them of doing too little to end discrimination and create diverse workforces than from campaigners such as Edward Blum...
...In a new paper, former White House climate adviser Paul Bledsoe and former trade official Edward Gresser suggest a neat solution: Europe could be cut in on some of the Inflation Reduction Act’s subsidies...
...Anyway, here are some Morgan Stanley charts: Venture activity has undergone its “[l]argest peak to trough swing in history”, writes analyst Edward Stanley....
...Reporting by Edward White and Song Jung-a in Seoul, Qianer Liu, Hudson Lockett, Gloria Li and Greg McMillan in Hong Kong, Kathrin Hille in Taipei, Kana Inagaki in Tokyo and Patricia Nilsson in Frankfurt...
...The Hotel Georgia quickly became popular with the well-heeled and famous, including Hollywood stars and royalty, from Laurence Olivier and John Wayne to future British king Edward, Prince of Wales, and his...
...Edward Blum, who has already sued global firms Perkins Coie and Morrison Foerster, told the FT he was gearing up to potentially file lawsuits against similar firms “over the next few weeks”....
...There are embossed and gilded friezes, trompe l’oeil painted doors, William Morris wallpapers and ceramics arranged on a plate rail in the dining room....
...It was probably only a matter of time before Touriste – the independent collection of Paris hotels that has already worked with Chloé Nègre, Dorothée Meilichzon and FT Weekend contributor Luke Edward Hall...
...Edward East played a part in disrupting the advertising industry when he co-founded the influencer marketing agency Billion Dollar Boy in 2014....
...Since graduating, Gordon has painted marbled doors in the home of designer and FT columnist Luke Edward Hall, and has just completed a master bathroom, based on Dutch Golden Age interiors, in the home of...
...Michael L Stoltz Fort Worth, TX, US...
...Additional reporting by Cheng Leng in Hong Kong and Joe Leahy in Beijing Letter in response to this article: A generous offer of Covid drugs can reset China ties / From Michael L Stoltz, Fort Worth, TX...
...Georgian papier-mâché wine bottle coasters I noticed in the window of Baggott Antiques in Stow-on-the-Wold the other week: finished in black lacquer with a broad gilt border decorated with a bold trompe-l’...
...German shoemaker Birkenstock’s IPO, meanwhile, could be valued above $8bn — unlocking a big return for its owner L Catterton, the private equity firm backed by French luxury fashion house LVMH....
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